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- with their said fishing and packing operations on said coast. The great 
majority of the people so employed belong to said coast. If your 
petitioners are interfered with and obstructed next season as they have 
been during the past three seasons, they will be obliged to withdraw 
their packing operations from said coast altogether. 
7. Annexed hereto is a statement showing the losses which your 
petitioners estimate they have sustained by reason of the matters and 
things above complained of. The said estimate is a just and fair one. 
8. Your petitioners were not during said period, or any part there- 
of, afforded any assistance or protection whatsoever by, or on behalf of, 
the Government of Newfoundland against the interference and injuries 
complained of. 
Your petitioners feel deeply aggrieved at the treatment received by 
them, and the losses they have in consequence sustained, and they 
respectfully submit that inasmuch as the Government of Newfoundland 
claims the right to exact duties upon goods landed upon said coast, and 
to have and exercise control and jurisdiction over that coast, and that 
the prosecution of the lobster catching and packing business on said 
coast is of vital importance to the people living there, it should afford 
your petitioners sufficient protection to enable them to prosecute their 
fishing operations in peace, and, further, that it should compensate your 
petitioners for their said losses. 
* BrLurroG,” at Port SAUNDERS, 
13th June, 1887. 
[ MEMORANDUM. | 
‘It having been brought to my notice by Captain Humann, chief 
of the French Naval Division in Newfoundland, that he has been 
memorialised by the captains of the French fishing vessels at Port-au- 
Choix, to the effect that certain operations pertaining to the lobster 
factory under your management interfere with the enjoyment of the 
fishing rights accorded to them by treaty, and having carefully con- 
sidered the matter, I find it my duty to order you to desist from 
setting traps for the lobsters henceforth on the coast north of the 
extreme of Two Hills Point and round the shore of Keppel Island, 
and do so accordingly. 
Witness my hand this 13th day of June, 1887. 
J. MAsTeRMAN, Lieutenant and Commander, 
J.P. for Newfoundland and Labrador, 
To the Manager of the Lobster Factory at Port Saunders, 
